We should not get on a high horse just yet, but I feel confident about this. Hope we will turn up in good shape!

starvs

Traveling to Turkey is always tough, and I’m sure Kazakhstan may present some challenges, but from a quality of the teams perspective, this isn’t perfect, but it’s about as reasonably possible.

Still gotta win the games though.

Kris

Gotta stay humble guys. Take it game by game.

atleti10

For the first season in a while I’m confident enough to say no problem.. lets destroy this group.

atleti10

Haha I guess I just posted the opposite.

Ahmad Hossainy

The first game is a key, a visit to Turkey where stadiums are hell, just like Greece where we lost our first game last season, so we should have a better start this time .

AaX

Good draw and Please don’t get over-confident for Divine Will disfavour overt self estimation, And We DON’T want that. For The Divine Blessing, AUPA ATLETI !!

AaX

Agreed

Ahmad Hossainy

The prize money has been increased by almost 25 % starting from this season, including the bonus for each win in games of group stage, 1.5 million instead of 1 million (while a draw still worth 0.5 million)

So, we really should try to win all 6 games, even if we secured the qualification before the last game or two, that will bring us 9 million, which could cover the salary of Koke & Grizi, or a big part of it .
And that is just a bonus, while we already secured 12 million for participating in group stage (instead of 8.6 million in the previous seasons), and if we passed to the round of 16 we will get 5.5 million (instead of 3.5) .. and so on .

The Champions League for a club like Atleti is like The Nile for Egypt, can not survive without it .

I really want Atleti to start off strong and not take this group lightly. Getting 4 early wins will allow us to breath for the last two. But it is also 1.5 million per win for the group stages, and I am sure that money could be put to good use. So winning them all can only help us with salaries and the winter/summer transfer.